Lower Coon Creek Corridor Restoration in Coon Rapids

The Coon Creek Watershed District in partnership with Anoka County Parks is restoring a portion of Coon Creek within the Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park.

Goals

1. Reduce sediment & nutrient pollution
2. Enhance habitat for native species
3. Protect property

How it Works

1. We stabilize multiple eroding streambanks and stormwater outfalls by using
   • Rock riprap
   • Woody bank protection
   • Re-grading
   • Replace and repair infrastructure
   • armor gullies with rock
2. We add in-channel and stream corridor habitat features:
   • cross-vanes of rock to create pools and riffles
   • woody structure in and above the water
   • create backwater pools
   • remove invasive buckthorn and add native plantings along the channel

Updates

We are waiting for final permit approvals from regulatory agencies to determine construction start date and schedule.

Tentative construction start in mid-December or early-January. Construction anticipated to be substantially completed by March 15, 2025, with final site restoration in summer 2025.

• 10/31/24 – Sunram Construction, Inc, was awarded the project
• 10/18/24 -Bid opening at the CCWD office
• 8/26/24 – Project design complete and project out for bid

Project Overview

Example construction details

2023 Public Information Meeting Presentation

Questions? Contact Jon Janke, Director of Operations, Coon Creek Watershed District. Phone: 763-755-0975

For more details on other work occurring in the Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park: https://www.anokacountyparks.com/news/coon-rapids-dam-regional-park

Funding

This project is funded by the Coon Creek Watershed District, the MN Clean Water Fund (Workplan here), and federal US EPA 319 funds in partnership with Anoka County Parks.